Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

(I prefer bottom posting but am following the prev poster.)

I looks as though you had /boot on a separate partition from / (in you
new install).

So instead of

    mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo

you need

    mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo

where x is 1 or 2 or whichever partition you used for /.

HTH,
allan

At Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:23:41 -0500 Mark <whitetr6@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I thought so too. So I booted to the Universal CD. Then I did
>   mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
>
> Then I did cd /mnt/gentoo and did a ls
>
> all I see is boot and lost+found
>
> Did I make a bigger mess than I thought?
>
> On 11/14/05, Petteri Räty <petteri.raty@saunalahti.fi> wrote:
>> Mark wrote:
>> > I made a mistake while creating my fstab on a new install, and I can't
>> > boot. If I use my Universal CD to boot up, what command(s) will I have
>> > to run to get access to the fstab to fix it? (I'm assuming I have to
>> > re-mount & chroot but I don't know specifically what to do). Thanks!
>>
>> You only need to mount your root partition to /mnt/gentoo and then
>> execute nano /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab -w. You can change nano to another
>> editor if you like.

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list